Advances in efficiency and productivity II / Juan Aparicio, C.A. Knox Lovell, Jesus T. Pastor, Joe Zhu, editors.

This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a (tech...

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Other Authors: Aparicio, Juan (Editor), Lovell, C. A. Knox (Editor), Pastor, Jesus T. (Jesus Tadeo) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Series:International series in operations research & management science ; 287.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. New Definitions of Economic Cross-Efficiency
  • Chapter 3. Evaluating Efficiency in Non-Homogeneous Environments
  • Chapter 4. Testing Positive Endogeneity in Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis
  • Chapter 5. Modelling Pollution-Generating Technologies: A Numerical Comparison of Non-Parametric Approaches
  • Chapter 6. On the Estimation of Educational Technical Efficiency from Sample Designs: A New Methodology using Robust Nonparametric Models
  • Chapter 7. Local Circularity of Six Classic Price Indexes
  • Chapter 8. Robust DEA efficiency scores: A heuristic for the combinatorial/probabilistic approach
  • Chapter 9. Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms Dynamic Productivity Change
  • Chapter 10. A Novel Two-Phase Approach to Computing a Regional Social Progress Index
  • Chapter 11. A Two-Level Top-Down Decomposition of Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Role of Infrastructure
  • Chapter 12. European energy efficiency evaluation based on the use of super efficiency under undesirable outputs in SBM models
  • Chapter 13. Probability of Default and Banking Efficiency. How Does the Market Respond?- Chapter 14. Measuring Global Municipal Performance in Heterogeneous Contexts: A Semi-Nonparametric Frontier Approach
  • Chapter 15. The Impact of Land Consolidation on Livestock Production in Asturias´ Parishes: A Spatial Production Analysis.